The Dictatorship of Storkostmark is a mid-sized, safe nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The quiet, industrious population of 88 million Storkosts are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 67.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Storkostmarkian economy, worth 1.55 trillion Storkost mynnts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 17,569 Storkost mynnts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Arbitrary election rules are considered sacrosanct, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles, and organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Storkostmark's national animal is the lynx.

Storkostmark is ranked 52,624^th in the world and 76^th in The League for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 67.55 Effective Tax Rate.